OpenAI Is Secretly Building a Social Network

Picture this: a social network populated mainly by AI bros. Sound like the place to hang? We ask because OpenAI has been secretly building its own social media platform, which The Verge reports is intended to resemble X-formerly-Twitter — the social media middleweight owned by CEO Sam Altman's arch-nemesis, Elon Musk. The project is still getting off the ground, but an internal prototype with a social media feed revolves around ChatGPT's new image generation capabilities, which you may be familiar with from the flood of Ghibli-styled AI images that dominated social media feeds last month. Altman has been privately asking outsiders for feedback about the project, according to the Verge. If it goes ahead, it sounds reminiscent of how X directly integrates Musk's Grok AI model into the website, where it operates both as a standalone chatbot, while also being capable of responding directly to users' posts at their request. This is an aspect that Grok-slash-X's competitors envy. "The G ... Read full article.